TRIPLE FEATURE

Here at the Big Hollywood Bijou, we always show triple features so you get your money’s worth. The only problem is we run out of letters for the marquee. So we try to put together titles wherein letters can do double duty.

For example, instead of advertising;
“Flower Drum Song
Song of the South
South Pacific”
Our marquee would read: “Flower Drum Song of the South Pacific”

To tell what’s playing next, we’ll give the marquee word count followed by three clues. You have to figure out the movies’ titles. Happy viewing!

1) 9 Words – Coen Brother’s 2001 noir with Billy Bob Thornton; Daniel Day-Lewis won a 2007 Oscar for his oily performance; this Coen feature was their first feature film

2) 8 Words – A kid lets the whale go; we’re talking the Gene Wilder classic, not the Johnny Depp remake; I’d be surprised if you saw this 2006 docudrama about socialite Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol

3) 9 Words – Amy Ryan won an Oscar for this Ben Affleck feature; producer David Selznick paid $5000 for the use of a profanity; Pythons Jones, Idle, Palin and Cleese worked together on this adaptation of the Kenneth Grahame children’s classic

4) 15 Words – Keanu Reeves starred in the 2008 remake of the 1951 Robert Wise classic; Meryl Streep was patient with psychiatrist Roy Scheider in this 1982 thriller; the only film based on a Vicki Lawrence hit single

5) 12 words – Sean Connery doesn’t attempt a Russian accent and Alec Baldwin doesn’t seem to care; Homer Hickam’s true story rockets to the screen; Lawrence Olivier had been dead 15 years when he joined Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow in this CGI epic

6) 9 words – In 2008, the star of “Shawn of the Dead” was directed by a “Friend” to be in a marathon; “Jason Bourne’s girlfriend” has 20 minutes to get money to her boyfriend – don’t worry, she gets more than one chance; Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster are not “sub” par in this WWII flick

7) 6 words – Ben Gates obviously wants to be Indiana Jones in this film and its sequel; Wallace Berry, Robert Newton, and Orson Welles, among others, have strapped on the peg leg to tell this classic Stevenson tale; the line “The natives are getting restless” has its origins in this 1932 telling of the H. G. Wells thriller

8) 9 words – The story of Theodore Geisel’s beloved pachyderm; Toon Town is where you can finally see Daffy and Donald Duck together; Bugs Bunny should have been stopped by this Australian barrier

9) 9 words – Elvis is a lover, not a Civil War fighter; Jason Robards has one of the worst names in all of cinema in this Fitzgerald adaption - Dr. Richard “Dick” Diver; Richard Burton is your tour guide in Mexico (watch out for the nocturnal reptiles)

10) 6 words – This 1978 film is not a remake of the 1943 film of the same name but rather 1941’s “Here Comes Mr. Jordan”; don’t you hate it when there’s heroin in your dolly?; we see the first half of this film through Humphrey Bogart’s eyes.